Artillery Row
Freedom for a fool
An Egyptian anti-Christianity activist should not have been imprisoned
The humanities aren’t dying; they’re emigrating
Humanities catastrophists are just professionally insecure
The phoney war on pink
Stereotypes, not colours, are the problem
In defence of narrative history
Stories make scholarship human
Comical in its excess
Boris Johnson’s last stand
Wakefield, Labour and cowardice
Enough of the silence and weasel words
How to lose a culture war
Or a fast march through the institutions
Development hell
The war in Ukraine has ground to a stalemate
“No thinking, please, we’re British!”
Our politics needs more strategic intelligence
Just do the bloody show
Rusalka, Royal Opera House
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The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
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Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
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unconquered by a
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How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
Night of the big bins
How Count Binface changed the face of Britain forever
Nowhere left to go
Labour is running out of cash, authority and time.
Fond portrait of an odd couple
Two irascible, elderly artists and two beautiful younger women in unusual relationships
Parade of defeats
Armenia is a democracy tearing itself apart over who gets to define the soul of a nation
Fisticuffs over the fourth movement
When did classical music become so disturbingly polite?
The shape of a different Britain
Early modernist homes in Frinton-on-Sea capture a moment of confidence in a rapidly changing world
AI and the Jefferson Option
Eighteenth-century advice on surviving the AI apocalypse
The soul of Putin
Twenty-five years after George W. Bush first looked into Vladimir Putin’s eyes, the Russian president has changed less than America would like to believe
A profound Tory
Simon Heffer’s biography of Enoch Powell very much deserves revisiting
Will Spain become a Protestant country?
How immigration is changing the religious dynamics of a traditional Catholic stronghold
That viral Reddit post does not say a lot about society
Don’t confuse your caricature of your outgroup for the real thing
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